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### Author
Brierley, William Broadhurst (1889-1963), British agricultural botanist, school teacher Manchester 1907-1909, studied at the University of Manchester, B. Sc. 1911, M. Sc. 1912, D. Sc. 1920, lecturer economic botany 1911-1914, assistant at Kew, pathologic laboratory 1914-1918, Rothamsted Experiment Station head department plant pathology 1918-1932, professor of agricultural botany at the University of Reading 1932-1954.
**Abbreviated name**: *Brierley*
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection TRT|TRT]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Ainsworth p. 232, 327; Barnhart 1: 250 (b. 19 Feb 1889); Desmond p. 88 (b. 19 Feb 1889, Manchester, d. Keswick, Cumberland, 20 Feb 1963); IH 2: 96; Kew 1: 359; LS suppl. 3686-3702.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Gard. Chron. ser. 3. 77: 104. 1925 (portr.); Who was who 1961-1970: 134. 1972; The Times 1 Mar 1963.
- Brierley, W.B., on Chronica Botanica post card, now in files TL-2 7 Jul 1939 (data).
- Gager, C.S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Rec. 27(3): 252. 1938 (director Agric. bot. Garden, Reading Univ. from 1932).
- Hunt Institution, Dict. bot. portr. coll. 52. 1972 (b. 19 Feb 1889, Manchester, d. Feb 1963, Keswick).
### Publications
##### n.22.863. structure
**Title**
The *structure* and life-history of *Leptosphaeria Lemaneae* (Cohn). Manchester (Memoirs and Proceeedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society...) 1913. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Struct. Leptosph. Leman.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 30 Jun 1913 (date on cover-t.p.), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-24, *pl. 1-2* (uncol. liths.). *Copy*: L. – Issued as Mem. Proc. Manchester Lit. Philos. Soc. 57(8), 1913.
##### n.22.864. Spore germination
**Title**
*Spore germination* in *Onygena equina*, Willd.... Annals of Botany... 1917. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Jan 1917 (date on cover-t.p.), cover-t.p., p. \[127\]-132. *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. Bot. 31(121): 127-132. 1917.
##### n.22.865. concepts in mycology
**Title**
Some *concepts in mycology* – an attempt at synthesis... Cambridge (At the University Press). 1919. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 19 Sep 1919 (date on cover-t.p.), cover-t.p., p. \[204\]-235. *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. Brit. mycol. Soc. 6(2): 204-235. 1919.
##### n.22.866. Botrytis cinerea
**Title**
On a form of *Botrytis cinerea*, with colourless sclerotia... \[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London...\] 1920. Qu.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 22 Jul 1920 (date on p. 83, read 18 Mar 1920, Nat. Nov. Oct (1,2) 1920), cover-t.p., p. 83-114, *pl. 5* (uncol. phot.). *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London ser. B. 210: 83-114, *pl. 5.* 1920.
##### n.22.867. quantitative study of soil fungi
**Title**
The *quantitative study of soil fungi*... Proceedings and Papers of soil science... Concord N.H. (printed in the United States of America by Rumford Press) 1927. Oct.
**Notes**
*Co-authors*: S.T. Jewson and M. Brierley.
*Publ*.: 1927 (read at Congress 13-22 Jun 1927), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-24. *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Pap. First Intern. Congr. Soil Science 3: 24-48. 1927.